The map of conflicts related to environmental injustice and health in Brazil

Rocha, Diogo Ferreira da; Porto, Marcelo Firpo; Pacheco, Tania; Leroy, J. P.

doi:10.1007/s11625-017-0494-5

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“…These include the Observatory of mining conflicts of Latin America (OCMAL), Oilwatch, World Rainforest Movement, FIOCRUZ and the Brazilian network of Environmental Justice (Da Rocha et al 2017, this feature); GAIA (alliance against incineration of waste, Herrero and Vilella, this feature); and the Centro di Documentazione sui Conflitti Ambientali (CDCA), as well as other sources (as in Latorre et al 2015 for Ecuador). These databases represented invaluable empirical evidence on the impacts of new forms of extractivism based on activist production of knowledge created through conflict, however they were and are limited by geographic or thematic boundaries.…”

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The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability

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“…In Brazil, loss of access or rights of small-scale fishers with respect to other uses has also occurred. Fishers have lost access to privileged beach front sites due to competition with tourism (Diegues and Arruda, 2001;Vasconcellos et al, 2011), they have lost marine areas due to competition with aquaculture (especially shrimp farming in the 1990s and aquaculture parks in the 2000s) (da Rocha et al, 2018), with port infrastructures (Gerhardinger et al, 2018a ) and conflicts with energy industry developments (including wind) (Brannstrom et al, 2017, p. 67). All these expressions of grabbing at sea have prompted the movement for the Territorios pesqueiros for the defence of small-scale fishery interests (Coordenac¸ão Geral da Campanha: http://peloterritoriopes queiro.blogspot.com/).…”

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Marine spatial planning and the risk of ocean grabbing in the tropical Atlantic

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Bonnin

Ferreira

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ICES Journal of Marine Science

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Ocean grabbing occurs when traditional users, such as small-scale fishers, are pushed aside by new development activities. This grabbing must be prevented to avoid sea uses that maintain or increase social inequity. In this paper, we show that in tropical Atlantic countries, such as Brazil and Senegal, examples of ocean grabbing already occur. In this context, we analyse if Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) may be an opportunity to limit ocean grabbing or, to the contrary, poses a risk to increase it. MSP calls for an ecosystem approach that requires integrated coastal and marine management and involves stakeholders in developing a shared vision of the future, where society and environment are preserved. However, recent studies have shown that MSP is a process to be used cautiously to ensure equitable decisions. Meanwhile, the concept is spreading worldwide including in tropical Atlantic countries. We highlight that context matters and the specificities of the tropical Atlantic must be taken into account when deploying MSP processes. In the tropical Atlantic context, there is increased imbalances of stakeholder power, traps from decision support tools, and a need for adaptive management. These specific features must be addressed when deploying MSP in a way to avoid ocean grabbing.

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“…In the countryside, the socio-environmental conflicts in recent decades are characterized by the export neo-extractivism of agribusiness, mining, and infrastructure projects, which face resistance from social and community movements linked to the agrarian reform and the demarcation of indigenous and quilombola lands. In the cities, real-estate speculation and gentrification driven by the finance, tourist, medical, and hospital capital or by major events (Olympics and World Cup) have intensified the socio-spatial processes of exclusion, with resistance organized by movements such as the Homeless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem-Teto, MTST) (Rocha et al, 2017). Their fight is not just for housing, transportation and sanitation, but also for more democratic and inclusive cities.…”

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Emancipatory Urban Greening in the Global South: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Dialogues and the Role of Traditional and Peasant Peoples and Communities in Brazil

Porto¹,

Fasanello²,

Rocha³

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Cities

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This article discusses theoretical, methodological and political issues related to urban greening in the Global South, as well as emancipatory alternatives to envisioning more inclusive, democratic, sustainable and healthy cities. We sustain that the role of traditional and peasant peoples and communities – including indigenous, quilombolas and others - is strategic for thinking about alternatives and actions aimed at the paradigmatic transition that surpasses the vision of Eurocentric modernity. It generates artificial barriers that divide countryside and cities, society and nature, life and economy, as well as subjects and objects in producing and sharing knowledge. These peoples and communities designates a diversity of social situations that have as a common denominator conditions of existence considered to contrast with “modernity,” situated on the margins of the representations of “development” and “progress” of the hegemonic economic and political powers. Our arguments are empirically based on experiences developed in Brazil with interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogues carried out in recent years. The events called “Meetings of Knowledges” brought together academic groups and different social movements and community organizations involving social struggles and topics such as health, environmental conflicts and justice, food security and sovereignty, agroecology, among others. These meetings intend to enhance intercultural and interdisciplinary interactions between agents working together in different territories with concrete knowledges and experiences. The contents generated by the debates held at these events and their developments depict social experiences that reinforce the underlying hypothesis behind this article: the social struggles involving the interaction between traditional and agricultural populations with urban spaces in the Global South provide important evidence for research agendas about emerging emancipatory processes related to urban greening. In the first part of the text, we analyze the historical, social and epistemological meaning of indigenous, quilombola and peasant peoples in the Brazilian context, analyzing both recent contradictions and threats, as well as their role in the emergence of ongoing emancipatory agendas, including interaction with cities. Finally, we show examples related to social struggles, first of an indigenous ethnic group in the Amazon region, and then in two big Brazilian cities, involving social movements and community organizations that integrate actions for decent housing, sanitation, health care, and food along with the rescue of ancestral knowledge.

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The map of conflicts related to environmental injustice and health in Brazil

Cited by 69 publications

References 11 publications

The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability

The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability

Marine spatial planning and the risk of ocean grabbing in the tropical Atlantic

Emancipatory Urban Greening in the Global South: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Dialogues and the Role of Traditional and Peasant Peoples and Communities in Brazil

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